Sid Miller Paid American Potential $90k. Now It's Attacking Nate Sheets.

Paxton's Office Loses 35 Years of Open Records Rulings to MAINTENANCE (Many People Are Saying 10/31/26)

Current Revolt, Tex Rex, and Tommy Paine

Oct 30, 2026

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Sid Miller Paid “American Potential” $90k. Now American Potential Is Attacking Nate Sheets.

A text message ad is making the rounds in Texas telling Republicans not to vote for Nate Sheets for Ag Commissioner:

Clicking the image shows it was paid for by “American Potential”

So who is American Potential?

According to state campaign finance data from TransparencyUSA, a payee called American Potential has been paid $90,000 by Sid Miller’s campaign:

Four payments came from Miller, all labeled “Advertising Expense”:

$50,000 on February 23, 2026
$10,000 on February 26, 2026
$20,000 on March 3, 2026
$10,000 on March 3, 2026

Now to be clear, there is no record showing Sid Miller paid for this ad. The data doesn’t say what the $90,000 to American Potential bought.

The data above also lists American Potential’s city as “Alxandria” (their spelling) with no state. There’s also a federal committee called “American Potential” that, per ProPublica, “only reports independent expenditures to the FEC.” Current Revolt has not confirmed it’s the same group.

Sid has posted aggressively against Nate Sheets as of late. On October 19th, Miller posted an essay on his own website telling voters to reject Sheets.

Miller also told the Texas Tribune he hasn’t endorsed in the Ag Commissioner race.

Sheets has called Miller “the most corrupt figure in Texas government.”

CR has covered Miller's post-primary turn before. Now there's an attack ad with a name on the bottom that Miller's campaign has written $90,000 in checks to.

Maybe it's a coincidence.

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